Don't be in a hurry--let us be harrumless as sarpints, but _wise_ as doves.

Now, 'tis a fine thing, no doubt, to put an end to a jewel by active intherfarence, though I have known cases, my dear child, where suppressing a simple jewel has been the cause of half a dozen breaking out afterwards in the same neighbourhood, and on the very same quarrel, d'ye mind--though, of coorse, that's no reason here or there, my dear boy! But take it that a jewel is breaking down and coming to the ground of itself (here a hugely cunning wink), in an aisy, natural, accommodating way, the only effect of intherfarence is to bolster it up, d'ye see, so just considher how things are, my dear.

Lave it all to me, and mind my words, it _can't_ take place without a second.

The officers have refused, so has Toole, _you_ won't undertake it, and it's too late to go into town.

I defy it to come to anything.